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Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ But I woke up in the middle of the night and could n't get back to sleep , so I decided to bake a cake , after all .
2	‘ But I woke up in the middle of the night in agony .
3	I said I had to piss , but I ran out of the house and walked around the streets wondering what the fuck to do and trying to imagine what Dad was saying to Mum and how she was taking it .
4	I suppose I was on my way to call for Millie , but I walk on past the house instead , obscurely ashamed to have caught her father unawares .
5	‘ But I came down to the theatre and was assured it was suitable for children so we came with open minds , ’ she said .
6	But I came out of the stand through the fire exit and I ca n't get back in .
7	‘ No , but I went down to the quay one Sunday and I heard her .
8	Butchering 's a tasty part of , if I wanted to do anything I 'd take a leaf out of , I would say is that , but I delegate down through the butchers .
9	But I looked out of the window as I spoke to him .
10	‘ I do n't use drugs myself , but I grew up in the South Bronx where heroin use was all around me .
11	I was not Boat Race standard , but I got by at the level of intercollege competition .
12	Well I did n't know Spanish , but I got by with the Italian , you know , I had , I had once , .
13	‘ It will be the third time I 've been measured for a blazer — but I missed out on the last two ( matches ) , ’ Lane added .
14	I do n't know if it was the Irish temper in me or the Mexican , but I leapt on to the first marine I could reach .
15	The back was broken and there was only one plank left to sit on , but I sat down on the peeling green paint .
16	But I reported back to the office on Monday morning .
17	I did n't need warming up but I pulled in to the kerb without hesitation .
18	It 's much like a DYPP , and should really have been called DXPP , but someone came up with the name Tech-Tech first ( on the other hand , just try to pronounce DXPP ! ) .
19	They could perhaps find a replacement make-up artist , though that would prove difficult at such short notice , but someone coming in at the last moment would find it hard to cope with the unusual styles , and the actors would be having problems enough dealing with first-night nerves without having to face any added strain .
20	Lambert dived , but nobody came out of the basket .
21	But you went back to the hangar a second time with your matches to start a second fire — to destroy the very work which you did . ’
22	erm but you homed in on the needs and you persisted in finding out from me what I wanted which was good and you checked very carefully on the policies in existence so yeah , considering it 's a page which erm can be a bit confusing you did very well .
23	A number of players had been tried , but none came up to the subtle demands of the job .
24	We have been to a few other Holiday sites/parks , but none came up to the standard of HIGHFIELD HOLIDAY PARK .
25	But she clung on to the post , her body sinking to the floor , oblivious to the groans that issued from her own throat , and the words that formed on her lips .
26	He claims he only pushed her away but she fell back onto the knife .
27	She was not particularly hungry , but she went down to the hotel 's dining-room around eight that evening , then returned to her room to spend a fitful night .
28	He insisted on walking her home but she ran off at the corner .
29	At first her father had tried persuasion , but she was intransigent : brute force , but she ran back to the woods the moment she could : custodial restraint , but he could not bear the sight and sound of her pining .
30	But she looked down through the glass skylight and recognised in Maggie 's cropped hair and long white body the same contours that she had seen in that other virgin warrior whom she had inspired into battle .